Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20, Hamilton spared

[Locutus]

Harriet Tubman will bump Andrew Jackson from the front of the $20 bill while Alexander Hamilton will stay put on the $10 — a historic move that gives a woman prime placement on U.S. currency and quells a controversy kicked up by Hamilton super-fans.


“Today, I’m excited to announce that for the first time in more than a century, the front of our currency will feature the portrait of a woman, Harriet Tubman, on the $20 note,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told reporters during a conference call Wednesday afternoon. “Her incredible story of courage and commitment to equality embody the ideals of democracy that our nation celebrates, and we’ll continue to value her legacy by honoring her on our currency.”




Lew rolled out sweeping changes that will put a new cast of historic figures onto various bills that have remained largely static for decades. Leaders of the women’s suffrage movement will make their way onto the back of the $10 bill, while civil rights era leaders and other important moments in American history will be incorporated into the $5 bill. Jackson will be kicked to the back of the $20 bill.


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Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20, Hamilton spared - POLITICO

 

[Curious Cdn]

Our Feds want to put a woman (other than Her Majesty) on one of our bills, too. Now that the Americans have beaten us at it with a woman "of colour" on a bill, the Canadians are going to have to one-up them, find a woman of minority ethnicity who is handicapped in some way, then put her on a bill. Maybe, they should just invent one? ... half Black Metis woman like Hellen Keller?

 

[Walter]

Our Feds want to put a woman (other than Her Majesty) on one of our bills, too. Now that the Americans have beaten us at it with a woman "of colour" on a bill, the Canadians are going to have to one-up them, find a woman of minority ethnicity who is handicapped in some way, then put her on a bill. Maybe, they should just invent one? ... half Black Metis woman like Hellen Keller?

Or maybe just a lesbian, a fat one preferably.

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[spaminator]

she looks absolutely thrilled.

Or maybe just a lesbian

 

[Ludlow]

Not sure why they chose Tubman seeing as how Jackson was primarily responsible for the trail of tears and other atrocities against native Americans . I would have thought they would have chosen a native American to replace the bastard.

Not that any would choose to be on there.

 

[Highball]

I was hoping they'd put Nancy Pelosi on the $ 3.00 bill and Hillary on the $13.00 bill.

 

[lone wolf]

...as long as it spends

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

she looks absolutely thrilled.

A sure way to promote 100% digital transactions.

 

[tay]

Not sure why they chose Tubman seeing as how Jackson was primarily responsible for the trail of tears and other atrocities against native Americans . I would have thought they would have chosen a native American to replace the bastard.

Not that any would choose to be on there.

Fun fact: During his first election, a series of anti-Jackson tracts known as the “Coffin handbills” were circulated. The second of these contains an amazing account in which Jackson personally leads the slaughter of 1,000 Indians.

 

[tay]

She came north because the ‘land of liberty’ made her work for free: Why the Tubman $20 is great for Canada

If Canada could have hoped for anyone on a United States Treasury Note, it would have to be Harriet Tubman.

Here was a woman who lived in Canada, who risked her life to turn people into Canadians and stands as a testament that when it came to basic human freedom, the so-called “land of liberty” couldn’t hold a candle to.

“We’re ecstatic that we can call her one of our own,” said Rochelle Bush, historian for Tubman’s former church in St. Catharines, Ont.

Between the 1851 passage of the Fugitive Slave and the opening shots of the Civil War 10 years later, Tubman was a well-known attendee at the Salem Chapel British Methodist Episcopal Church.

That is, when she wasn’t slipping back over the border to smuggle more people to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

In total, Tubman freed roughly 300 former slaves by bringing them to Canadian soil, and hundreds of their descendants remain in the country to this day.

Within Tubman’s own family tree, in fact, Bush estimates there are roughly 100 descendants living in Ontario and British Columbia.

Tubman has been named by Parks Canada as a person of national historic significance. Saint Catharines just opened the Harriet Tubman Public School, complete with a life-sized bronze statue of Tubman.

U.S. history has long been unusually coy about pointing out where the Underground Railroad actually ended. Often, textbooks will merely say that slaves were fleeing “north.”

Canadians, of course, have a bad habit of smugly talking up their country in the presence of Americans, be it the benefits of socialized healthcare or noting that the Canadian Armed Forces largely sat out the Iraq War.

And Bush said it’s entirely fine now to “proclaim it to everybody” that the woman on the $20 bill appreciated Canada’s policy of not forcing black people to work for free.

She came north because the ‘land of liberty’ made her work for free: Why the Tubman $20 is great for Canada | National Post

 

[Kreskin]

Trump is going to be mighty pissed about this. I sense another wall in the works.